SINGAPORE — China's Guizhou province, where Apple Inc has set up its first data center in the country, plans to create a working committee chaired by communist party members to oversee the U.S. company's iCloud facility. The Guizhou government said on its website (www.gzgov.gov.cn) that the Apple iCloud working committee would be made up of around 10 members, such as Guizhou's Executive Vice Governor Qin Rupei, Deputy Secretary-general Ma Ningyu and other officials. "The provincial government has decided to form a development and coordination working committee to quicken the setting up of Apple's iCloud project," it said in a Chinese language statement. In July, Apple said it had set up its first data center in China, in the southern province of Guizhou, in partnership with a local internet services company, to comply with tougher cyber security laws. The data center forms part of Apple's planned $1 billion investment in the province.

Source: New York Times August 14, 2017 14:03 UTC